Example sentences of "[verb] little time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government of the US wasted little time in funding two secret thermonuclear research projects . |
| 2 | Douglas , disappointed , had of course been prepared for this also , and wasted little time in cursing . |
| 3 | However , with Sarah Bentley making her singles debut for Surrey , the holders wasted little time in establishing a winning 5–1 lead to retain their title . |
| 4 | He wasted little time in finding a replacement , choosing the widowed Mary of Guise . |
| 5 | So in his first major speech as leader in parliament he wasted little time on the customary compliments and warned the government that he intended to play hard . |
| 6 | She wasted little time in starting to eat , her quick brain turning over alternative scenarios as she debated whether to show herself to the Carlisle Flint team , or disappear quietly to her room . |
| 7 | He was waiting for her outside and wasted little time in virtually hustling her outside to where his car was waiting for them . |
| 8 | Kate looked round rather blindly to find her colleagues , and , having located them , wasted little time . |
| 9 | It was wonderful to be so close to him again , to feel no barriers between them , and he wasted little time before possessing her with such quick , hot urgency that she was left behind . |
| 10 | This exile might have been permanent had Swegen not died in February 1014. Æthelred was invited back , and wasted little time in expelling Cnut and his army from their Lincolnshire base . |
| 11 | Once free of these troubles he wasted little time in turning his attention to England . |
| 12 | US officials admit that they knew about the coup plans as early as last Saturday , but say they were given little time to judge its chances of success or to plan any US involvement . |
| 13 | Napoleon , however , was given little time to enjoy his victory . |
| 14 | One month after Charles 's funeral , wasting little time , his eldest daughter Elizabeth , who had probably tended her father through his final illness and was by then the official occupier of the dwelling house next to his shop , upped and married by licence . |
| 15 | Now that the calls are almost constant , allowing little time for relaxation and getting to know other volunteers , the group is having to explore the possibilities of support groups and regular discussion weekends . |
| 16 | To be fair , the government of Hong Kong has such pressing social problems on its hands that it can spare little time either for passing or , equally important , enforcing conservation laws . |
| 17 | He had a brilliant technical mind but found little time for people . |
| 18 | Except for Sting and George Michael ( 'wonderful voice , writes great songs ' ) , she has little time for most modern pop . |
| 19 | Particularly , she has little time for a group called Yello , the Swiss electro-band with whom she collaborated on a single last year , much in the way Liza Minelli and the Pet Shop Boys or Gene Pitney and Marc Almond have . |
| 20 | He retains the influence , if not the constitutional power , of a feudal monarch , has little time for Dr Mahathir and is related by marriage to the leader of Semangat '46 . |
| 21 | He lists no hobbies in Who 's Who ? but then again , he has little time , although he and his wife , Caroline , a high-flying recruitment consultant , are renowned ‘ foodies ’ . |
| 22 | The aggressiveness and competitiveness of capitalism has little time for his Christian sensibilities . |
| 23 | And , like Amy , Chelsea has little time for affairs of state . |
| 24 | Heseltine has little time left . |
| 25 | Examples of this reciprocal effect lie in the man who is engrossed in his work to the detriment of his married life or the woman who is so wrapped up in her children that she has little time for her husband . |
| 26 | David Pool has little time for the mystification of artists and their art , and his sole intent is to see the momentum of improvement roll of regardless of fragile egos . |
| 27 | Even in the off-season , McBride has little time to relax . |
| 28 | Waggoner supports the first theory , but has little time for the whiners . |
| 29 | He may be an MBE , but Moorhouse has little time for Britain 's sporting establishment . |
| 30 | Mr Houghton has come across protests , but has little time for their case or their tactics . |